Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
Regina Diana
Seductress, Singer, Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The Untold Story of Régina Diana tells of the rebellious daughter of working-class French-Italian parents from a run-down area of Geneva who, trained by the most ruthless spymaster of them all, Elisabeth Schragmüller (aka Fraulein Doktor), became a much-adored French ‘café-concert’ singer,...
by Phyllida Scrivens
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Lady Lord Mayors of Norwich 1923 - 2017 offers an entertaining and revealing insight into the diverse lives, both personal and civic, of seventeen remarkable women, who between 1923 and 2017, has each held the honor of being First Citizen of the City of Norwich in Norfolk England. Moreover, the...
by Mike Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, this book looks at some of the stories which inspired Daniel Defoe – stories of bravery, courage, determination and good fortune. It looks at Defoe’s life and the monumental success of his novel – sometimes described as being...
Fatal Evidence
Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
A surgeon and chemist at Guy’s Hospital in London, Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor used new techniques to search the human body for evidence that once had been unseen. As well as tracing poisons, he could identify blood on clothing and weapons, and used hair and fiber analysis to catch killers.
Taylor...
Regency Spies
Secret Histories of Britain's Rebels & Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Sue Wilkes reveals the shadowy world of Britain's spies, rebels and secret societies from the late 1780s until 1820. Drawing on contemporary literature and official records, Wilkes unmasks the real conspirators and tells the tragic stories of the unwitting victims sent to the gallows.
In this...
by Stephen Basdeo
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In 1381, England was on the brink - the poor suffered the effects of war, the Black Death, and Poll Tax. At this time the brave Wat Tyler arose to lead the commoners, forming an army who set off to London to meet with King Richard II and present him with a list of grievances and demands for redress....
Heartbeat and Beyond
Memoirs of 50 Years of Yorkshire Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In 1968 a group of young people took over a derelict trouser factory in a rundown part of Leeds and set about producing programmes that were to define the British television world of the late 20th Century.
These included the investigative documentary series First Tuesday, Darling Buds of May,...
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys
Society's First Sex Offender
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper and a rapist.
Set against the London society...
by Gill Hoffs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
“The ship was almost instantly in flames … Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it is supposed killed great numbers by their descent. Others, it is feared, were roasted alive, but the majority were drowned.”...
by Bernadette Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals**
Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervour. From Christian beginnings in the Middle Ages through Reformation,...
Six For The Tolpuddle Martyrs
The Epic Struggle for Justice and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
In 1834 six farm laborers from the Dorset hamlet of Tolpuddle fell foul of draconian Victorian laws prohibiting ‘assembly’. Today the names of George Loveless and his brother James, Thomas Standfield and his son John, James Brine and James Hammett, who made up the Tolpuddle Martyrs, stand high...
Death on the Victorian Beat
The Shocking Story of Police Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Death on the Victorian Beat is the first book dedicated solely to the murders of police officers in the Victorian era, recalling numerous cases from across the United Kingdom. Martin Baggoley highlights the resistance faced everyday by officers of all ranks, in both the great cities and in the supposedly...
by Andrew Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The story of the Princes in the Tower is well known: the grim but dramatic events of 1483, when the twelve-year-old Edward Plantagenet was taken into custody by his uncle, Richard of Gloucester, and imprisoned in the Tower of London along with his younger brother, have been told and retold hundreds...
The Last Governor
Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
1 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People’s Republic of China.
In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and was the man to oversee the handover ceremony...